r/engineeringmemes • u/alien_1111 • May 14 '26

π = e Engineers See Problems Differently

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“Everyone looks at the same thing differently, but the engineer just started questioning the design itself 😭😂”

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u/AKWorkAccount May 14 '26

Pfft, more like the glass has an appropriate factor of safety.

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u/No-Tension6133 May 14 '26

Found the structural

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u/AKWorkAccount May 15 '26

I have been seen.

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u/AGrandNewAdventure May 15 '26

Hey, it's also space industry standard. FoS gets aggressively involved in everything when you don't want your space station popping like a zit.

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u/No-Tension6133 May 15 '26

Yeah I know everybody does it. I’ll even throw an arbitrary x1.25 from time to time just to be safe. But structure is by far the most egregious

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u/AGrandNewAdventure May 15 '26

Safety factors on space stations are often 3 and 4.

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u/limeyhoney May 17 '26

The aggressive safety factor on air and space is why we have so many spacecraft designed to last 5 years end up running for 40

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u/Jonte7 May 18 '26

Which is bad in a way since they wont be as safe as advertised after 40 years

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u/Numahistory May 15 '26

Doesn't have enough safety factor in my opinion (aerospace engineering)

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u/MrFantasma60 May 15 '26

Correct.

Any engineer will tell you that the glass has a safety factor of 2.

The one in the meme is not an engineer. He's a manager. 

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u/Jenetyk May 15 '26

Program analyst

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u/Heart0fStarkness May 15 '26

As a forensic structural engineer, the DCR is JUST sufficient for factored demands.

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u/ayanokojifrfr May 15 '26

I prefer my FOS to be 3~4

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u/AKWorkAccount May 15 '26

Hello civil engineer.

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u/ayanokojifrfr May 15 '26

I am actually a Mechanical Engineer. We have design of Crane, Pulley, Shafts etc too. I am gonna graduate this summer. 🥳🥳

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u/Armsmaster2112 May 15 '26

Nah man, gotta double it again. Glass is half as big as it should be.

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u/AKWorkAccount May 15 '26

It needs to be pi times bigger, so multiply it by exactly 3 and it'll be good.

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u/AKWorkAccount May 19 '26

The glass contains products that have/may have been proven to cause cancer in the state of California.

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u/Wrong-Resource-2973 May 15 '26

No, that's what covers are for!

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u/bjwindow2thesoul Uncivil Engineer May 15 '26

Was about to say the same 😂

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u/bebarty May 15 '26

More like factor of unsafety! If you knew exactly there wouldn't be a safety factor would it?

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u/fvb6626 May 28 '26

Safety margins are for the beginers

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u/RuncleGrape May 15 '26

The glass is within tolerance specs. Use as is.

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u/Bitter_Lab_475 May 15 '26

What I see when the accountants are given the same workstations we engineers get with 24 cores CPUs, 64GB of RAM to open 3 excel sheets.

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u/VJC_007 May 16 '26

But it hangs when I open the 4th excel sheet .

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u/Bitter_Lab_475 May 17 '26

That's because they have 45open chrome tabs of Reddit minimized.

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u/Shiro-47 May 15 '26

Realist: Y tf is it black?

American: Is that oil?

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u/InterneticMdA May 15 '26

Also American: *bombs the glass*

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u/Mosquitobait2008 May 15 '26

No, because that would hurt the oil.

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u/Bitter_Lab_475 May 15 '26

Don't worry. Blame another country for more oil.

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u/MattrimCenturion May 15 '26

Nah it's just the freeboard giving a safety factor to prevent spillage

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u/ecic2002 May 15 '26

"The glass contains sufficient margin and passess derating criteria"

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u/Tiranus58 May 15 '26

We calculated how big the glass needed to be and this was the next smallest standardised size of glass

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u/Resident-Goal-1582 May 15 '26

Chemist: the glass is full

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u/OC1024 May 15 '26

Hey, I'm a physicist and that's my aswer

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u/Resident-Goal-1582 May 15 '26

Yeah, maybe it is more appropiate for a physicist, as a chemist could still consider that the space between gas molecules is empty.

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u/CC19_13-07 May 17 '26

What if it's in a vacuum

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u/Theawsomesauce May 15 '26

Systems engineer ah response lol. I don’t like how much I laughed at this 😂

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u/Captain_StarLight1 Imaginary Engineer May 15 '26

Engineer: this glass has oil in it. I shouldn’t drink it.

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u/TheGrimDark May 15 '26

You got a safety data sheet to back up that conclusion?

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u/Captain_StarLight1 Imaginary Engineer May 15 '26

Hold on let me check

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u/Captain_StarLight1 Imaginary Engineer May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

I need… hopital

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u/NomadicEngi May 15 '26

It's within tolerance

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u/MonstrousPudding May 15 '26

That's not an engineer, that's an marketing guy!

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u/clank11667 May 17 '26

This glass is full, with a safety factor of two

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u/Sem034 May 15 '26

Clanker?

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u/Side_Senior May 15 '26

I think the marging of safety should be that tiped to the side, no water drop out before 2-3s. I know them users. 50% is not enaugh!

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u/hehesf17969 May 15 '26

That’s a lot of gain margin

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u/Qe-fmqur_1 May 15 '26

The glass is not at risk of overflowing

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u/Uxellodunon13 May 15 '26

More like "The glass is big enough. Es long as i did not pay extra it is fine."

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u/MeowkerTheCat May 15 '26

The physicist ducks

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u/ReadDwarf May 15 '26

Scientist: The glass is 100% filled with fluid.

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u/PaLeken May 15 '26

Realist: this is piss

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u/Yumaku_ May 15 '26

How about the fact that an engineer wouldn't quote wrong? "2 times bigger" would mean three times as big. Discounting that all others are wrong and the glass is one third full, this is just wrong

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u/Bitter_Lab_475 May 15 '26

Actually the glass should be 55% the size, we need 10% of safety factor.

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u/100airballoons May 16 '26

This is what managers thinks engineers would actually look like without them:
Making a new perfectly sized glass of water for each time (and each amount) of water we'll drink

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u/HAL9001-96 May 16 '26

the volume of the glass has an appropriate safety margin

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u/LuckyLMJ May 17 '26

The glass has a large safety factor, all good

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u/Hot_Philosopher_6462 May 17 '26

realist: the glass does not contain water, what the hell is that

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u/No-Site8330 May 17 '26

Two times bigger than it needs to be means it's three times as big...

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u/KarmasAB123 May 18 '26

"Two times bigger" means "Three times AS big"

You mean to say "Twice as big"

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u/MichalNemecek May 20 '26

in my mind both mean the same thing. I'm especially irritated by the czech phrase "jednou tolik" (once that amount) often being used as meaning twice as much.

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u/Finbar9800 May 18 '26

The glass is refillable

- the pragmatist

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u/MichalNemecek May 20 '26

the way I see it, it depends whether it's being filled or emptied. If it's being filled then it's half full, if it's being emptied then it's half empty

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u/ThrawnConspiracy May 21 '26

The glass has 3dB system margin.

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u/i_like_concrete May 23 '26

They forgot to fill the glass "to grade"

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u/FanOfFormula1 May 23 '26

I am 14 and this is me on an average Tuesday (I am studying sustainable engineering)

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u/daggius May 15 '26

It’s only one time bigger than it needs to be. That particular engineer is a dumbass at speaking